When I first saw pictures of the baobab tree, I thought I was looking at an extraterrestrial landscape. About 60 feet tall with fat trunks and at the very top, branches that are bare for nine months of the year, the baobab looks like a regular tree that has been jammed into the ground upside-down with the roots sticking up in the air. The baobab tree is a native of arid regions of Africa, Madagascar, India and Australia and its knack for survival in extreme conditions along with the highly nutritious fruit that it bears have earned it the nickname, "Tree of Life." Read More 

In the last several years, more information has surfaced about the safety of chemicals used to create Teflon (PTFE) and other non-stick surface-coated pans.  It was found that with use, scraping food with utensils could cause tiny flecks of these chemical-based surfaces to get into your food. Even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had deemed that ingesting small particles of these pan surfaces has not been shown to cause any real health problems, many of my patients decided to throw out their non-stick cookware and switch back to cast iron or aluminum. Read More